Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English author, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic.
More quotations from G. K. Chesterton Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further still and find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception perspective travel returning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: enemies self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: beauty art imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Your next-door neighbor . . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception neighbors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further still and find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception perspective travel returning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: enemies self Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: beauty art imitation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Your next-door neighbor . . . is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a pianola; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: perception neighbors Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email